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1903
Whose working lives fell in 1903. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1903, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nicholas II of Russia14 decades - 2
Maxim Gorky13 decades - 3
Fritz Haber11 decades - 4
W. E. B. Du Bois12 decades - 5
Robert Falcon Scott3 decades - 6
Miklós Horthy1 decades - 7
Scott Joplin7 decades - 8
Constantine I of Greece0 decades - 9
Gertrude Bell10 decades - 10
Magnus Hirschfeld12 decades - 11
Abdulmejid IInot measured- - 12
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenbergnot measured- - 13
Fuad I of Egyptnot measured- - 14
Emanuel Lasker5 decades - 15
Gaston Leroux12 decades - 16
Kantarō Suzukinot measured- - 17
Edmond Rostand13 decades - 18
Charles Maurras13 decades - 19
James Connolly14 decades - 20
John Nance Garner9 decades - 21
Alexandra David-Néelnot measured- - 22
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austrianot measured- - 23
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 24
Paul Claudel12 decades - 25
Florence Foster Jenkinsnot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.